Because everyone burns through their limits much faster, forcing them to upgrade to higher limits or new tiers.
replyI think someone would much sooner switch to a competitor than up their tier.
replyIf model provider believes they have a better model, it can be a viable bet. But many (me included) started experimenting with other providers because of enshittification from Anthropic (price + uptime). Only to find, that Codex is not that worse in quality for a significantly more output per $.
replyThey could just increase the token cost no? There’s little need for cute conspiracies like these
replyThey would have to tell people if they did that.
replyNot necessarily with speculative decoding. Whitespace would be trivial to predict and they would petty much keep using the same amount of compute as before.
replyI don't think that's their primary motive for doing this but it is a side effect.